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Mine Waste and Tailings Conference

Meet Our Team

Sam Paterson | Principal Geotechnical Engineer

Sam has over 25 years’ experience and specific expertise in design, construction, and operation of tailings storage facilities.

Joe Rola | Principal Geotechnical Engineer

Joe has experience working on mine and power generation wastes, heap leach, and land/infrastructure development projects across Australia, Southeast Asia, and Canada.

Ignacio Vernengo Lezica | Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Ignacio has over 10 years’ experience in geotechnical engineering, specialising in soil mechanics, with specific expertise in tailings storage facilities.

Ignacio Vernengo

Felipe Lopez Rivarola | Senior Consultant (Civil Geotechnics)

Felipe has experience in numerical modelling of civil and geotechnical structures in general, and in advanced constitutive models.

Felipe has published more than 15 articles in journals and conferences in the areas of numerical modeling, constitutive models, mathematics and applied physics, multiscale, and fracture. 

Felipe Lopez Rivarola

Jonathon Eldridge | Tailings Engineer

Jonathon is a consultant working in SRK’s mine waste team with over 6 years’ experience. He has been involved in numerous projects across Australia in both desktop design and site-based roles, including geotechnical investigation, options studies, design from concept through to detailed, cost estimation, risk assessment, auditing, laboratory testing and data analysis/interpretation. 

Technical Talks

Evaluation of the Triggering of Static Liquefaction of Tailings Dams Considering the SWCC
Thursday, July 13, 2023, 01:35 PM - 03:15 PM AEST

This paper describes the application of finite element modelling in Plaxis 2D to the analysis of the vulnerability of a TSF to static liquefaction.

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Application of Bayesian Methods to the Estimation of Shear Strength Parameters for Slope Stability Analysis of a TSF
Thursday, July 13, 2023, 10:55 AM - 12:35 PM AEST

Join SRK's Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ignacio Vernengo as he discusses using Bayesian statistics to obtain a more meaningful estimation of shear strength based on available data and prior knowledge of the parameters.

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CPT Interpretation for Tailings Dam Stability Analyses - Considerations for Defining Tailings’ Undrained Strength
Thursday, July 13, 2023, 10:55 AM - 12:35 PM AEST

Join SRK's Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Joe Rola as he presents on considerations for defining undrained strengths within tailings from cone penetration test data, discussing different approaches to characterising strength using statistical methods and its influence on stability assessments.

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Featured Events

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IMWA 2023
Newport, UK
July 17 - 21, 2023

The International Mine Water Association (IMWA) Conference 2023, hosted in Newport, South Wales (UK).

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Short Course: Geostatistical Evaluation of Mineral Resources and Their Uncertainty Under The New Regulatory Environment
Montreal, Canada
September 25 - 29, 2023

This course aims to show how state-of-the-art statistical and geostatistical techniques help answer the requirements of the latest regulations on mineral resources public reporting in an objective and reproducible manner. This is part of the McGill Professional Development Seminar series 2023.

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15th International ISRM Congress 2023
Salzburgo, Austria
October 09 - 14, 2023

The main theme of the ISRM 2023 Congress will be focused on "challenges in rock mechanics and rock engineering", as well as exploring topics related to numerical modelling, rock engineering, tunnels and deep excavations, among others. This version of the congress has even more relevance to be held in the city of Salzburg, where the International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM) was founded in 1962.

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